English billiards

In his early days, he also played English billiards.

He was known for playing polo, cricket, field hockey and English billiards.

Such a sequence can be generated by considering a game of English billiards on a square table.

There are also hybrid pocket/carom games such as English billiards.

This collectively gave rise to the modern version of English billiards, still played (with minor changes) today.

These rules continued to exist in English billiards until 1983, when a standard two points for all fouls was introduced.

Up until the first organised professional tournament in 1870, all English billiards champions were decided by challenge.

William Cook was a professional player of English billiards in the 19th century.

That year also marks the time of first English billiards challenge match held in the United States.

Between 1929 and 1933 Lindrum dominated the English billiards scene.

Everton was a talented amateur player of English billiards, reaching both the 1975 and 1977 world semi-finals.

She also won three World English Billiards championships.

Coverage began with English billiards and today is more often about the sport of snooker and various pool games such as eight-ball.

Willie Smith (1886-1982) was an English professional player of snooker and English billiards.

Tom Dennis (1881 - c. 1939) was an English professional snooker and English billiards player.

Cook popularised the "spot-barred" version of English billiards, whereby the red could not be potted more than twice in succession from its spot.

As in the games of snooker, English billiards, cowboy pool and others, pocketed balls are immediately respotted to their starting position.

The specific game of English billiards (a chiefly British, Irish and Australian usage)

The three ancestral games had their heyday in 1770s England, but had combined into English billiards, with a 16-point score total, by approximately 1800.

Billiards - John Roberts, Sr. loses the English billiards championship after 21 years.

There are a number of pocket billiard games directly descended from English billiards, including bull dog, scratch pool, thirty-one pool and thirty-eight.

The World Billiards Championship is an international cue sports tournament in the discipline of English billiards.

Tom Reece (12 August 1873 - 26 October 1953) was a Welsh professional player of English billiards.

John Roberts, Jr. (15 August 1847 - 23 December 1919) was a dominant professional player of English billiards.

Similarly, British terms predominate in the world of snooker, English billiards and blackball, regardless of the players' nationalities.